Nicholas S., a biochemist in Quebec, is close to bringing the human race to solving the great enigma of man's upright posture. As his story opens, he is on the way to collect the corpse of a young woman who has died from hypothermia and bequeathed he...
Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being “a mast...
Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024The first year of November eighteenth is comin...